Flashback: The Voices of East Harlem
In a current landscape of rampant unemployment in the wake of a global economic melt-down, the BP oil spill marking the worst...
Classic Motown Duet: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Despite having a short career together due to personal tragedy, the partnership of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell created iconic soul music...
Billy Stewart 'The Chancellor of Soul'
Pianist and singer Billy Stewart was a distinctive and influential R&B vocalist whose stuttering delivery and word-repetition technique...
James Brown, 'Live at the Apollo' Voted No. 1 of '50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time
King Records founder Syd Nathan declined to jump on James Brown's idea of a live album — they hadn't been established as a profitable...
Amiri Baraka "Jazz and the White Critic"
Most jazz critics have been white Americans, but most important jazz musicians have not been. This might seem a simple enough reality to...
HBO Purchases US Distribution Rights to Brooklyn Based Film First's Mavis Staples Documentary
Brooklyn-based Film First has announced North American distribution deals for their feature documentary "Mavis!" on the life of Mavis...
"The Wicked Pickett": Wilson Pickett (1941-2006)
Wilson Pickett was born in Prattville, Alabama. Pickett grew up singing in church choirs. He once called his mother "the baddest woman in...
